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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, September 6,1984
KILLING THE BABY BEFORE DELIVERY
“A new abortion method developed in Atlanta,
injects an adult dose of the drug digoxin directly
into a fetus’s heart, causing it to stop and killing
the baby in the womb.”
These shocking words were used in a story
from Georgia’s capital city telling that this
method had been used 600 times in an Atlanta
hospital. The method was used for late
second-trimester abortions (20 to 24 weeks
gestation) and was used experimentally by a
doctor no longer associated with the facility.
The story reports that ‘‘normally, digoxin is
used to correct and control abnormal heartbeats
and heart failure in adults and children ... it is
approved by the federal Food and Drug
Administration for use to treat heart failure and
to correct dangerous variation in the heart rate.
Here we have the use of a drug designed to help
prolong life being used to stop the lif£ of the
unborn. We wonder how anyone can argue that
the unborn child is not human as now that child
is killed by an injection into the heart?
And the reason for this attack to the heart
according to the doctor using the new method
was that it was safer for women than saline
induction and was COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL
AT KILLING THE BABY BEFORE DELIVERY.
How sad it is that man devotes so much time
and effort looking for better ways to kill the
unborn child.
-JEM
The Best Wine For Last
“I’ll do it later.” How often have you said that when
faced with a task you’d rather not do or feel you can put
off? What you’ve done is procrastinated, postponing
something that should be done.
In his book, “The Road Less Travelled,” Dr. M. Scott
Peck discusses the importance of delayed gratification as a
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way of breaking the habit of procrastination. Most people
devote the first hour of their day to the pleasant tasks and
the remaining six hours getting up the courage to do
something objectionable. He suggests that if they force
themselves to accomplish the unpleasant part of a job
during the first hour, then they would be free to enjoy the
other six.
“Delayed gratification is a process of scheduling one’s
life to enhance pleasure by meeting the experience of pain
first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to
live.” (Peck, p.19)
While “everyone pleads guilty to procrastination,”
there are specific things you can do to cure the habit,
according to Edwin C. Bliss, a management consultant and
author of a self-help manual for curing procrasination.
Here are some suggestions he offered in an interview with
Glenda Murphy of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
-- Ask yourself why you’re putting off the task.
- Make some effort to get started. “Once you can
establish motion just by taking a token motion, it keeps
going,” says Bliss.
-- Talk to yourself. “Whenever I find myself putting
something off, I have a talk with myself,” Bliss confesses.
“The business of talking to yourself out loud really
works.”
If you want to achieve your goals, it’s important not to
delay “something you know in your heart you should be
doing now,” says Bliss.
People procrastinate for many reasons - fear of failure
or success, poor time management, fatigue, lack of
willpower, poor organization. Whatever the reason, there
are ways to overcome the habit. It might help to
remember the advice Paul gave to the Colossians:
“Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through Him” (Col. 3:17).
Vatican Document Attacks Apathy Toward Poor
VATICAN CITY (NC) » The Vatican’s Sept. 3
document on liberation theology criticizes the use of
Marxist social theory, but it also strongly reaffirms church
teachings that Catholics have a moral obligation to work
for a just social order.
“The warning against the serious deviations of some
‘theologies of liberation’ must not at all be taken as some
kind of approval, even indirect, of those who keep the
poor in misery, who profit from that misery, who notice
it while doing nothing about it, or who remain indifferent
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to it,” said the document, issued by the Vatican
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The document, which was ordered published by Pope
John Paul II, also said that the warning “should in no way
be interpreted as a disavowal of all those who want to
respond generously and with an authentic evangelical
spirit” on behalf of the poor.
The document called the experience gained by church
people working for the evangelization and advancement of
the oppressed “necessary for the doctrinal and pastoral
reflection of the church.”
The document also repeated past church criticisms of
the economic imbalance between developed and
underdeveloped nations and the exploritation of the poor
in Third World countries.
“The lack of equity and of a sense of solidarity in
international transactions works to the advantage of the
industrialized nations so that the gulf between the rich
and the poor is ever widening,” it said. “Hence derives the
feeling of frustration among Third World countries, and
the accusations of exploitation and economic colonialism
brought against the industrialized nations.”
The document also criticized “the scandal involved in
the gigantic arms race which, in addition to the threat
which it poses to peace, squanders amounts of money so
large that even a fraction of it would be sufficient to
respond to the needs of those people who want for the
basic essentials of life.”
Earlier, a June commentary in Fides, news agency of
the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of
Peoples, had reported that if 5 percent of arms spending
were used to aid the hungry, “the scourge of famine
would be overcome.”
Regarding Latin America, the document criticized “the
seizure of the vast majority of the wealth by an oligarchy
of owners bereft of social consciousness.” It attacked
“military dictators making a mockery of elementary
human rights, the corruption of certain powerful officials,
(and) the savage practice of some foreign capital
interests. ”
The document cited a “need for radical reforms of the
structures which conceal poverty and which are
themselves a form of violence.”
It praised church people who try to improve social
conditions.
“It is impossible to overlook the immense amount of
selfless work done! by Christians, pastors, priests, Religious
or lay persons, who, driven by a love for their brothers
and sisters living in inhuman conditions, have endeavored
to bring help and comfort to countless people in the
distress brought by poverty,” said the document.
The document also criticized communist governments
and called it the “shame of our time” that “millions of
our contemporaries legitimately yearn to recover those
basic freedoms of which they were deprived by
totalitarian and atheistic regimes. ”